OPERATOR'S
FIELD MANUAL

Create an account with email verification or a supported sign-in method. After your account is active, ONO assigns an operator profile and grants one [ LOANER TAPE ] when available. The loaner lets new users try the full recording flow before owning a permanent tape.

The Vault is your main inventory screen. [ COLLECTION ] contains opened, draft, sealed, archived, and playable tapes. [ INVENTORY ] contains unopened packs that still need to be opened before use.

The Workshop is where blank or draft tapes become recordings. You can upload audio files, including MP3 files, or use the built-in recorder to capture a new signal from your microphone. Tracks are assigned to Side A or Side B and must fit within the tape capacity.

Sealing turns a draft recording into a finished tape. After sealing, the tape becomes playable in the Player. If you are sealing a loaner tape, ONO starts a 30-day expiry clock. Use that window to dub the loaner contents into a permanent tape if you want to keep them.

The Player is the listening surface for sealed tapes. Open a tape from the Vault or tape inspector and choose the player action. Loaner tapes can be played while they are valid. Expired loaners may be archived and blocked from playback.

A loaner tape is temporary. It is meant to help new operators test the system. Loaner tapes are non-transferable. After a loaner is sealed, it receives a 30-day expiry window. To preserve the recording, dub it into a permanent blank or draft tape.

Dubbing copies the signal from a sealed or archived loaner into a permanent blank or draft tape that you own. This is the recommended path for keeping a loaner recording. The loaner remains protected until you complete the final seal flow in the Workshop.

Permanent tapes can be transferred by generating a claim link. Loaner tapes cannot be transferred. Only eligible tape states can generate a transfer token, and the asset may be temporarily locked while the transfer token is active.

The Profile page stores your operator name, avatar, account timestamps, activity tools, rewrite credits, and security actions. Your avatar is shared between the top navigation and profile page, so changing it updates both.

Rewrite credits are used for destructive reset operations on eligible sealed assets. A rewrite clears the recording and returns the physical shell to a reusable state when the system allows it.